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Broken and the Blessed Week 5, Day 6

by David Joynt on February 10, 2017


DAY 34

MATTHEW 18:23-35

This parable explains what the unmerciful do receive—judgement! Since God, through Christ, has forgiven us a massive debt, consisting of all that is wrong in our thoughts and lives, we must forgive others when they wrong us in smaller ways. Otherwise, from the divine perspective, we are like the unforgiving servant, failing to understand the scope and quality of this remarkable mercy.

 

Do you ever think about judgment?

Practice mercy today in your relations with others.

 

FAMILY TIME:

Talk about debt. What is it?

Why is it a powerful picture of sin?

 

Tags: blessed, forgive, mercy

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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